Follow-up: Master Class: NGO Best Practices. Strategies to Attract Financing (2013.03.13, MSM Romania)

Follow-up: Master Class: NGO Best Practices. Strategies to Attract Financing (2013.03.13, MSM Romania)

On March 13th, MsM Romania’s Center For Shared Value and Social Impact heldits first Master class titled: „NGO Funding Best Practices: Strategies to Attract Financing„. Industry leaders from both the for-profit and NGO sectors took part to an interactive roundtable panel format discussing best practices that NGOs can employ to attract more funds from for-profits. The partner for this eventEducativa.

Below, photos & videos taken at the near end of the event.

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Why (also) be stupid in the „About us” page for a *personal* blog?

2570608134_385b2ab131_zIf I were to tell someone what to write on his „about us” page for a personal blog, I would suggest the following general rules:

This would keep things professional.

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Footer links in WordPress

wordpress-logo-stacked-rgbWordPress footer links are those links which are generated by a code such as:

<a href=”<?php echo esc_url( __( ‘http://wordpress.org/’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?>” title=”<?php esc_attr_e( ‘Semantic Personal Publishing Platform’, ‘twentyeleven’ ); ?>” rel=”generator”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), ‘WordPress‘ ); ?></a>

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Tip for organizing events – give participants photos at the end of the conference

A cheap photo printer costs about 200 Euros. 600 Euros for a good one. 2,000 for the best on the market. In-between, you have a lot of options. Tip – take some photos during the conference and give participants free photos. Most events should be able to cover the cost of the photos very easily. Ideas for the photos: Speakers. Audience. The person for whom you give the photo. It’s a rather cheap cost, the results could be remarkable. (idea via, thanks!)

Small Facebook tip

How do you visit Facebook? You go to Google and type Facebook – „boo! baaad! nooooo! don’t do this!” You type Face… and your browser auto-completes to Facebook.com. – „well done!” You tybe fb.com, and that’s it. :) – „great!” The fb.com shortcut can be used to pretty much any type of link: fb.com/cetd.ro versus facebook.com/cetd.ro fb.com/lumeaseoppc versus facebook.com/lumeaseoppc „Anything? Anything!” :)

Tip – save the things which mean something to you, from the Internet

1547549511_1f2f68741dI was recently looking for an article which I know I’ve read in the past 30 days. I’ve used anything which was at hand – browser history, Google Web History, software to download data, software to check the history of the browser, other utilities. I ended by having an Excel with 90,000+ entries, after duplicates were removed, representing URLs and titles of the web sites I opened in the past few months. I looked as quickly as you can into a file of this size, and I gave up. The link just wasn’t to be found.

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Where does “passion” come from?

The word „passion” comes from: 1125–75; Middle English  (< Old French ) < Medieval Latin passiōn-  (stem of passiō ) Christ’s sufferings onthe cross, any of the Biblical accounts of these (> late Old English passiōn ), special use of Late Latin passiō suffering, submission, derivative of Latin passus,  past participle of patī  to suffer, submit; see -ion (source) „Passion” can be, thus, interpreted less as: Ah, look at my energy, I am so energetic, let’s put energy. And more as: I will suffer for this. How does one suffer, in business environments? Most likely – through work. So, „passion” is more about „work” than it is about a special emotion. :) Note: the current definition contradicts me, but the name origin doesn’t. P.S. Also see: Despre pasiune #2: Olivian Breda PS, 2019.10.08: Do what you love – Paul Jarvis. PS, 2019.10.08: Chasing Your Dreams is Probably a Bad Idea – CLIPPING CHAINS. PS, 2019.10.27: Passion at a price: UO study finds passionate employees may be exploited for loving what they do. 0 Links